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Breast Cancer: Screening

Written question asked by Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 21 June 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 15 June 2018. It was answered by Steve Brine (Conservative) on Thursday, 21 June 2018 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Oral Statement of 2 May 2018 on Breast Cancer Screening, Official Report, column 361, whether there is a record of the number of women who came forward to say they had not received an invitation to breast screening before May 2018.

Answer

There is no record held of the total number of women coming forward who have not received an invitation to breast screening before May 2018.

Public Health England contacted 195,565 women registered with a general practitioner in England in May 2018. In addition, all the affected women known to have moved to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland were also written to by 1 June.

About this written question

Reference

153162

Session

2017-19
Breast Cancer Screening
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
Proceeding contributions
House of Commons

Contains statistics

Yes
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